Shakespeare / Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance

Shakespeare / Text challenges established binaries and offers new approaches to reading, analyzing, teaching, performing, and editing Shakespeare, offering valuable insights for scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers, and librarians.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 06 April 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Shakespeare / Text is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by 20 esteemed experts in textual matters. This comprehensive volume challenges and reconfigures entrenched binaries that have shaped our understanding and interpretation of Shakespeare's works. These binaries include book versus theatre, source versus adaptation, text versus paratext, canon versus apocrypha, sense versus nonsense, extant versus ephemeral, material versus digital, and original versus copy. By employing a diverse range of methods from book history, bibliography, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, theatre studies, and literary criticism, the authors propose a transformative reimagining of our understanding of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

The chapters in Shakespeare / Text present compelling arguments for challenging prevailing notions and offer innovative approaches to treating the text in its various manifestations. These methods are designed to be valuable to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers, teachers, teachers, and librarians alike.

Through their insightful contributions, Shakespeare / Text offers a fresh perspective on the study and utilization of Shakespearean texts, expanding our horizons and fostering a deeper appreciation of the rich tapestry of his works. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in Shakespearean studies and the broader field of literary criticism.

Weight: 712g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350344556